On 6 June 2017 at 16:29, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Melville wrote: > >> The book is still showing Lesstif as an optional dependency of Vim. >> Lesstif is a dead project which hasn't been updated since 2009. Lesstif >> came into being as a FLOSS replacement for the proprietary Motif. This no >> longer became necessary when the Motif toolkit was released under the LGPL >> in 2012. >> >> Regarding the entry in the book, and as Motif is an ongoing project, >> perhaps the answer is to now replace Lesstif with Motif. Vim can be built >> with a Motif backend. The Motif website is http://motif.ics.com/ and the >> source code is here https://sourceforge.net/p/motif/code/ci/master/tree/ >> > > I've removed the reference to lesstif. I checked my log for vim and could > find no reference to 'tif'. In addition I think motif is pretty much dead > on linux (if it was ever alive). The only place I've seen it at all is > either on an hpux or aix system (I don't recall which) 20 years ago.
I agree that it's not very popular (I don't know anybody that uses it), but it still appears to be alive and kicking. There are regular updates with the latest being less than a year ago. Vim configure options include:- --enable-motif-check --with-motif-lib=STRING Richard
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